[QUOTE=pumpjack hand;38323]Any floor hands reading along here? If you heard one driller say, “Our well control system can control any kick situation and save your life if we react and implement according to procedure,” and then also heard another driller say, “Our well control system can usually control any kick situation if the engineers and company men and pushers have done their job properly, trust them,” which driller would you want to go out with?
In this highly emotionally charged very verbose discussion here we may have lost sight of what the bottom line is in order to get back to work. Or am I not seeing the forest for the trees?[/QUOTE]
I would trust the one who is being honest with me. The one who is being hoest with me would say," This well control system has been tested to API standards & has been gone through thoroughly & SHOULD be reliable in an emergency situation to save your life. Having said that, we will not attempt to rely on a BOP stack to stop an uncontrolled flow of gas coming directly from a hydrocarbon zone to within 5 feet of our BOP stack without any means of circulating the kick out. We will make sure any and all means have been used by the operator to isolate that zone & those isolation barriers have been tested properly & that all lockdown rings for isolation devices & cement plugs have been placed before we displace a well to underbalance conditions. This is the right thing to do & it is the way we will do it or not work for the operator.
That’s the driller I would trust.